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No. 750,688. PATENTED JAN. 26, 1904. L. B. PARKER.

COMPOSITE UONDIMENT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1a. 1903.

NO MODEL.

Y iii ii? j; 9 Y 8 UNITED STATES Patented January 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

COMPOSITE CONDlMENT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 750,688, dated January 26, 1904.

Application filed June 13, 1903. Serial No. 161,301. (No model.)

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LYMAN B. PARKER, of Chickasha, in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Composite Condiment- Holders, of which the following is a complete specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce improvements in unitary articles for holding a plurality of condiments and for selectively discharging the contents thereof; at the will of the manipulator.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a top plan view of a form of embodiment of my invention presented in a two-compartment holder. Fig. II is a section on the line II II of Fig. I, the cap being shown on one side in section and on the other side in dotted lines and the cap-actuating spring being shown in elevation.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates one compartment, and 2 the other, which are united, as by an integral medial wall or septum 3, into a single article,provided upon opposite sides of the wall 8 with recesses 4: and 5, which constitute the hollow interiors of the compartments 1 and 2, respectively. Each of the compartments is preferably furnished with a cylindrical preferably externally-threaded neck (indicated by the numerals 7 and 8, respectively, and adapted to accommodate one of the usual perforated screw-caps 9 and 10.)

The compartment 2 being provided, for example, with salt and the compartment 1 with pepper, it is designed that one may help himself at pleasure to either of said condiments in the usual way, but without discharging or depositing any portion of the contents of the other compartment than that which holds the condiment which he selects. Accordingly I provide a cap or disk 12, having a tailpiece 13 and provided upon opposite sides with pads 14 and 15, secured, as by a central pin 16, to the cap or disk 12. To take the place of the pads, the disk may be made of yielding flexible material. The cap or disk 12 is adapted to close either of the recesses 4 and 5 at pleasure, and for that purpose it is preferably pivoted, as by a pin 17 passing through the tailpiece 13, to lugs 18 and 19, extending upwardly from the compartments 1 and 2 and the septum 3.

l/Vithin a recess in the septum and between the lugs 18 and 19 I provide a coiled spring 20, seated at its lower end on the bottom of a spring socket or recess 21 and at the other end secured to the end of the tailpiece 13. The tendency of the spring 20 is to yieldingly urge one or the other padded side of the cap 12 against one or the other of the necks 7 and 8, or, in other words, against one of the screwcaps 9 and 10.

In operation, the recesses 4t and 5 being properly charged, a manipulator turns the cap 12 to one side or the other of the holder and from the open recess thereof causes-discharge of its contents, as by shaking in the ordinary way.

What I claim is In a composite condiment-holder the combination with a plurality of compartments provided with an intermediate spring-socket, of lugs upon opposite sides thereof, a cap provided with a tailpiece pivoted between said lugs, and a trigger-spring seated in the socket and engaging the end of the tailpiece on the other side of the pivot from the cap, to hold said cap firmly over either compartment of the holder.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

LYMAN B. PARKER.

Witnesses:

M. O. HAEOKER, F. B. HOUSTON. 

